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Two key overarching goals of this Initiative are enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of U.S. industry and reducing the trends toward higher imports. These goals take into account new Federal policies that reflect economic needs, including economic growth, deficit reduction, job creation...
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Until recent years the proportion contributed to total government revenue by the petroleum industry has continued to … failed to locate new sources of petroleum. The oil industry has called for the relaxation of the government take in order to … encourage exploration activity for the replacement of reserves. In an environment of low world prices and continuing high levels …
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This paper develops a framework that analyzes how mergers and acquisitions in Alberta’s oil and gas industry affect stock prices. In this experiment, a multivariate regression is applied to several industry-specific variables to determine if they have impacts on the abnormal stock returns of...
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world since it supplies a reinterpretation of historical events associated with the conflict between Libya and primarily the …
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The Strategic Petroleum Reserve serves as one of our most important investments in reducing the Nation`s vulnerability … formidable deterrent to the use of oil as a political instrument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created pursuant to the … in supplies of petroleum products and to carry out obligations of the United States under the Agreement on an …
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This is an evaluation of the Crude Oil Policy Model (COPM) and the assumptions driving the estimates of future crude oil production and abandonments attributable to an accelerated federal oil R&D program which were cited in the National Energy Strategy. This evaluation focuses on the logic and...
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The purpose of this publication is not to assess the causes of the 1973 energy crisis or the measures that were adopted to resolve it. The intent is to present some data on which such analyses can be based. Many of the trends presented here fall into two distinct periods. From 1973 to the...
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--based on the principles of the free market. The petroleum policy, as a subset of the economic policies, has been somewhat … affected by the political and economic developments in Iran. The petroleum policy has changed from a position of no foreign … report provides an up-to-date assessment of the Iranian petroleum sector and its likely evolution in the future. …
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Demand for liquid fuels (i.e., petroleum products) has burdened the U.S. with major challenges, including national … security and economic concerns stemming from rising petroleum imports; impacts of global climate change from rising emissions … domestic biomass feedstocks (e.g., corn, soybeans), they have the potential to reduce GHG emissions when compared to petroleum …
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This study investigates the use of discretion by oil and gas companies in reporting financial performance and oil and gas reserve estimates during times of high political scrutiny resulting from increases in energy prices. Hypotheses tested in prior literature state that companies facing the...
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